202 M iscella nies. 
17. Scientific Congress at Metz.—A circular printed letter which 
we have received, signed by M. Victor Simon, Secretaire de L’Acad- 
emie royale de Metz, &c. &c. &c., announces that a scientific meet- 
ing of savans of France, Germany, and other countries, will be held 
at Metz in September. It is desired that the purpose of attending 
may be made known, and also the subject which the individual will 
discuss. This is the fifth meeting of the French scientific men, held 
in different cities in the departments. 
- Metz is about sixty five miles northeast of Paris; it is an ancient 
and famous city. It has eminent individuals, and various institutions 
for science and arts—for literature, humanity and arms. It has fine 
Roman antiquities, and is in the midst of a beautiful country. We 
trust that some of our countrymen will attend, as they have done in 
England as well as on the continent. 
18. New York Statistical Society.—A statistical society has been 
recently incorporated by the Legislature of the state for the city of 
New York. Its capital stock is fifty thousand dollars, in shares of 
two hundred and fifty dollars each ; the society to commence opera- 
tions when the whole sum shall have been subscribed and five thou- 
sand dollars paid in. It may hold real estate convenient for the 
transaction of its business, provided the income does not exceed five 
thousand dollars. 
The society is modelled upon the plan of that of London, incor- 
porated in 1834. 
All opinions are excluded—facts only being its object, and as far 
as possible, those that can be arranged in a numerical and tabular 
form. The subject was divided by the British Association at Cam- 
bridge, into 1. Economical—2. Political—3. Medical—and 4. Mor- 
al and Intellectual Statistics. The class of 
Economical Statistics comprehends, 1st, the statistics of the natu- 
ral productions and the agriculture of nations ; 2dly, of manufac- 
tures ; 3dly, of commerce and currency ; 4thly, of the distribution 
of wealth, or all facts relating to rent, wages, profits, etc. 
Political Statistics furnish three subdivisions, 1st, the facts relating 
to the elements of political institutions, the number of electors, ju- 
rors, ete. ; 2dly, legal statistics ; Sdly, the statistics of finance and 
of national expenditure, and of civil and military establishments. 
Medical Statistics, strictly so called, will require at least two sub- 
divisions, and the great subject of population, although it might be 
